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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 was appointed scientists Richard F. Heck (USA), Ei-ichi Negishi (Japan), Akira Suzuki (Japan), the development of catalysis by cross-linking of palladium in organic synthesis, an important tool for the current organic chemistry.

The applications of this tool reaches many areas of action for chemical like medicine, electronics, and technology. Develop the ability of scientists to create sophisticated chemicals, for example, the development of carbon-based molecules as complex as the same as those found in nature.

The organic chemistry applied exploring ways to create carbon-based compounds , such as plastics and pharmaceuticals. To achieve this, the chemicals have to be able to join the carbon atoms to form functional molecules. However, the carbon is a stable element, which does not react easily with others.

Therefore, the first methods to force the carbon to join it were based on more reactive through substances. That kind of worked solutions when it came to creating simple molecules, but to synthesize more complex the method failed.

The cross-linking catalyzed by the palladium solved this problem and provided the chemicals of a new tool to work more efficiently. In reactions produced by Heck, Negishi and Suzuki , carbon atoms meet palladium atoms (rich in electrons and, therefore, a "magnet" for carbon) leading to a rapid chemical reaction (ie, a catalyst ).

Currently, catalysis by the palladium of cross-linking of organic synthesis is used in research worldwide, the development of important drugs to combat cancer or powerful virus, or even in commercial production, for example, pharmaceutical and molecules used in the electronics industry .

None of the three scientists worked together, but his experimental work separately managed the development of this important chemical tool and the possibility of using the today. Heck

, born in 1931 in Springfield (USA), received his doctorate in 1954 by the University Los Angeles, California, and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, in New York.

Negishi Japanese born in 1935 in Changchun (now China) and his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Pennsylvania to exercise later in the Purdue University (West Lafayette, USA).

Suzuki, born in Japan in 1930, received his doctorate in 1959 by the University of Hokkaido , which is currently a professor.

Three shared the 2010 Nobel Prize awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, a prize of about 1 million euros will be awarded in a pompous ceremony led by the King of Sweden on December 10, the day recalls the death of Alfred Nobel .